Phonon coupling between a nanomechanical resonator and a quantum fluid
arXiv:1803.07552 · doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b00821
Abstract
Owing to their extraordinary sensitivity to external forces, nanomechanical systems have become important tools for studying a variety of mesoscopic physical systems and realizing hybrid quantum systems. While nanomechanics has been widely applied in solid-state systems, its use in liquid is scantily studied. There it finds unique applications such as biosensing, rheological sensing, and studying fluid dynamics in unexplored regimes. Its use in quantum fluids offers new opportunities in studying fluids at low excitation levels all the way down to the quantum limit and in nano-metric scales reaching the fluid coherence length. Transduction and control of the low-loss excitations also facilitate long-life quantum information storage. In this work we demonstrate efficient coupling of a nanomechanical resonator to phonons in a bosonic quantum fluid -- superfluid He. By operating an ultra-high frequency nano-optomechanical microdisk resonator immersed in superfluid He, we show that the resonator dynamics is predominately determined by phonon-coupling to the superfluid. A high phonon exchange efficiency and minimum excitation rate of 0.25 phonons per oscillations period are achieved. We further show that the nanomechanical resonator can strongly couple to superfluid cavity phonons with cooperativity up to 880. Our study opens up new opportunities in control and manipulation of superfluids in nano-scale and low-excitation level.
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